1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 12
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 9, 1992; January 13, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 16, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 16, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to access to personal information about jurors in a
1-18 criminal trial.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-21 amended by adding Article 35.29 to read as follows:
1-22 Art. 35.29. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT JURORS. Information
1-23 collected by the court or by a prosecuting attorney during the jury
1-24 selection process about a person who serves as a juror, including
1-25 the juror's home address, home telephone number, social security
1-26 number, and other personal information, is confidential and may not
1-27 be disclosed by the court, the prosecuting attorney, the defense
1-28 counsel, or any court personnel except on application by a party in
1-29 the trial to the court in which the person is serving or did serve
1-30 as a juror. On a showing of good cause, the court shall permit
1-31 disclosure of the information sought.
1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-39 Austin,
1-40 Texas
1-41 March 16, 1993
1-42 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-43 President of the Senate
1-44 Sir:
1-45 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
1-46 No. 12, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-47 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-48 pass and be printed.
1-49 Whitmire,
1-50 Chairman
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1-52 WITNESSES
1-53 FOR AGAINST ON
1-54 ___________________________________________________________________
1-55 FOR AGAINST ON
1-56 ___________________________________________________________________
1-57 Name: Maureen Brunetti x
1-58 Representing: Self
1-59 City: Houston
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1-61 Name: Barbara Blair x
1-62 Representing: Self
1-63 City: Houston
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1-65 Name: Ray Spence x
1-66 Representing: Harris County District
1-67 Judges
1-68 City: Houston
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2-2 Name: Lee Ann Breeding x
2-3 Representing: Denton County Crim Dist Atty
2-4 City: Denton
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2-6 Name: Tom Krampitz x
2-7 Representing: Tx County & Dist Attys
2-8 City: Austin
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2-10 Name: Chris Elliot x
2-11 Representing: Tx Crim Defense Lawyers Assn
2-12 City: Austin
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